My name is Christine Lemmer-Webber, welcome to my humble home on the web. This is my personal website, always in a state where I wish I had time to clean up and add a thing or two (which is usually how I feel about my corporeal self and house too). So it goes!
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A little over a decade ago, there were some popular blogposts about whether Ruby was an acceptable Lisp or whether even Lisp was an acceptable Lisp . Peter Norvig was also writing at the time introducing Python to Lisp programmers . Lisp, those in the know knew, was the right thing to strive for, and yet seemed…
A couple weeks ago I made it to the FSF's 30th anniversary party. It was a blast in many ways, and a good generator of many fond memories, but I won't go into depth of them here. One particularly exciting thing that happened for me though was I got to meet Gerald Sussman (of SICP !) The conversation has greatly…
Hello everyone! Time for a bit of a diversion towards one of my favorite projects, Hy ! (I'm an occasional committer, but the main mastermind behind the project is my good friend Paul Tagliamonte .) For those of you who don't know, Hy is a Lisp that transforms into the Python AST. Even more fun: you can import .hy…
Before we get into this kind of stream-of-consciousness outline, I'd like to note that very topically to this, over at the Spritely Institute (where I'm CTO, did I mention on here yet that I'm the CTO of a nonprofit to improve networked communication on the internet on this blog? because I don't think I did) we…